Make yourself at home and take off your muddy boots, pour yourself some whisky (Irish, of course), and pop in Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds’ “Red Right Hand” on the record player to help set the mood. BBC’s crime drama series “Peaky Blinders” wrapped up its fifth season in September of 2019 with a pretty sizeable cliffhanger, leaving fans somewhat hanging in the wind as to the future of the series. The added complication of the pandemic ended up altering the original plans of a season 7 that would’ve wrapped up the small screen adventures of Tommy Shelby and his ambitious family of gangsters, but the Shelbys have always been adept at rolling with the punches as they come in. With the news that “Peaky Blinders” will air one final season before concluding on the big screen with a feature film, we’re looking ahead to the next season and gathering together everything we know about season 6 of “Peaky Blinders.”
What is Peaky Blinders?
Aside from serving as a PSA about how bad smoking is for your health (as gorgeous as it may look with the lighting on the show), “Peaky Blinders” charts the steady rise and occasional fall of the Shelby family of Birmingham in the early 1900s. Starting off as humble racetrack gamblers/fixers, the family of hard-edged Irish immigrants have spent several seasons rising through the ranks to become one of the most feared and powerful gangs in all the UK.
With Tommy guiding the family business throughout its bloody course and ascending all the way to the level of a Member of Parliament in recent seasons, season 5 truly put the family through the wringer. Beloved members of the family were killed off, Tommy further compromised his own values in his never-ending crusade for power, and the Shelbys may have finally met their match with a seemingly unbeatable villain. Season 5 ended with Tommy’s failed assassination attempt of Sam Claflin’s Oswald Mosely, a fascist politician described as the “devil” and who is being positioned as a multi-season big bad on the series.
"What can you tell me about Series 6?"@samclaflin and director Anthony Byrne join @Laurence_Moza for Obsessed With #PeakyBlinders, on BBC Sounds 🎧👉 https://t.co/eNACmYkRCk pic.twitter.com/8KIBswy3cW
— BBC Sounds (@BBCSounds) September 24, 2019
When Is Peaky Blinders Season 6 Release Date?
By order of the Peaky Blinders, the sixth season of the series will arrive on Netflix on June 10, 2022. Since the new episodes started airing in the United Kingdom last month, this means fans without a direct way to watch the BBC are in for a longer wait. But while the initial airing on UK television will be weekly, the Netflix release will see every episode drop all at once, all the better for bingeing. So you win some, you lose some. Still, fans should be wary: spoilers will be afoot, especially since the Netflix debut will come literal months after the finale has aired. Be safe out there.
